Amid all the chaos at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix – where Formula 1 qualifying produced a record six red flags – Max Verstappen kept his cool.The Red Bull driver got one flying lap at the end of Q3 and delivered to secure his 46th pole in F1 and sixth ofContinue Reading
For months a two-way intra-team title fight between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris has seemed like a forgone conclusion to the 2025 season, but McLaren team principal has always refused to rule out defending champion Max Verstappen.He repeated that statement after Verstappen took a second pole position on the bounce,Continue Reading
“You can start dancing to see if it rains a bit harder, no?”Carlos Sainz sat within his car, confined to the garage, as he watched the sprinkling of rain sweep almost horizontally across the Baku City Circuit. The gusting winds carried the tiny drops with some force but, although itContinue Reading
It took almost two hours to decide the grid for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to the six red flags that contributed to a stop-start qualifying. While the Baku City Circuit is known for its ravenous walls, the greater quantity of spills largely demonstrated the difficulty of the conditions.Those sixContinue Reading
Esteban Ocon has been thrown out of Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying after the rear wing of his Haas didn’t pass the FIA’s deflection tests.After a chaotic qualifying session in the streets of Baku, Ocon’s rear wing was found to deflect more than the allowed tolerance of 0.5mm, withContinue Reading
McLaren’s Lando Norris doesn’t see his seventh place on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix grid as a missed opportunity to claw back his Formula 1 deficit to championship-leading team-mate Oscar Piastri.Piastri crashed out in Q3, which relegated the Australian to ninth on the grid. With Norris having to make up a 31-pointContinue Reading
“We didn’t have the right tyre on at the end.”That was a downcast Lewis Hamilton’s assessment of why he was eliminated from qualifying for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The reasons for him being on the wrong tyre are mysterious.For this weekend, Pirelli has brought tyre compounds a stepContinue Reading
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has taken a dramatic pole position for Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a chaotic qualifying in Baku, ahead of Carlos Sainz and Liam Lawson.Sainz looked set for pole after being one of the only drivers to get a dry lap in during Q3 sessionContinue Reading
Perception is all in Formula 1 and Max Verstappen has been very careful to distance himself from the political shenanigans which have threatened to tear the Red Bull enterprise apart over the past 18 months.In public he has kept any criticism focused on the car itself: both the RB20 (post-Miami 2024)Continue Reading
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix will remain on the Formula 1 calendar until 2030 after the series signed a four-year contract extension with the Baku organisers.The race, which is generously backed by Baku’s long-standing regime, was set to host its final race of its current contract next year, but will nowContinue Reading